DRINKING WATER CASE STUDIES AND WHITE PAPERS

• Filtration Of Invasive Zebra Mussels From Lake Michigan

  Due to new construction and foot print limitations for the Milwaukee Art Museum, a new chiller feed line was fed directly from Lake Michigan and a filtration system was needed to prevent zebra mussels from entering the feed line and clogging the system.

• City Upgrades AMI System For Boost

  The city of Yakima was in search of a vendor who could provide a turnkey solution with a quality product line. The selected vendor also needed to have an endpoint that could withstand the extreme conditions experienced inside their meter pits.

• Treating Micropollutants With UV In Drinking Water - PWN, Netherlands

  PWN Water Supply Company, North Holland is currently operating a TrojanUVSwiftECT UV-oxidation system to provide an additional barrier to micropollutants at their plant in Andijk, the Netherlands

• UV Water Treatment Plants For Microorganism Prevention

  Recognizing the urgent need to ensure safe drinking water, the Queenstown Lakes District Council in New Zealand partnered with FILTEC to implement advanced UV water treatment solutions across key plants.

• Why We Should Use Naturally Occurring Microbes To Save Our Waterways

  The most common technologies utilized in the treatment of natural bodies of water that become polluted, or begin to undergo eutrophication, involve primarily some form of physical or chemical treatment such as chemical oxidizers, flocculants, activated carbon and zeolites, and/or mechanical treatments such as dredging. The primary drawback to chemical treatments is that the treatments are based on stoichiometry or molecule to molecule interactions. As a result, they get very expensive when treating large volumes of water.

• Oxidation And AOP: The Last Lines Of Defense Against Harmful Algal Blooms

  Secondary metabolites of algae — including algal toxins and taste and odor compounds triggered by a harmful algal bloom — can find their way into source water, creating the risk that they will ultimately reach the water treatment plant to cause water-quality problems. Here is a checklist of considerations for mitigating those effects through cost-effective oxidation, or combined oxidization processes, across a variety of source water conditions.

• New Toolkit Arrives Just In Time For HAB Season

  With harmful algal blooms (HABs) being forecast to increase, in part due to the effects of climate change, more water systems can expect to face problematic cyanotoxin conditions more frequently and for more days per year. In its efforts to mitigate the negative effects of such increases, the U.S. EPA has enhanced its information resources for water utilities by issuing a new Cyanotoxins Preparedness and Response Toolkit (CPRT).

• Security, Strength: AMERICAN Provides Products Of Choice For Major Highway Project In Augusta, Georgia

  Work is roughly 50 percent complete on a $30-million-plus upgrade of what is considered the most dangerous stretch of road in Augusta, Georgia.

• EPA And Canadian Researchers Partner To Ensure Effective Responses To Oil Spills

  The U.S.-Canada border is the world’s longest shared border and includes four of the five Great Lakes, many rivers, additional lakes, major airsheds and migratory routes for wildlife species. In addition, there are many Native American Tribes and First Nations residents whose culture extends across the border.

• Finding A More Affordable Migration Path To Net Zero Leakage

  Whether decision-makers consider it ultimately attainable or not, there is something positive to be said about striving toward ‘net zero leakage’ in water distribution systems saddled with high non-revenue-water (NRW) losses. The key is taking affordable steps — like those described below — toward identifying and mitigating the most egregious water loss locations in a distribution system, based on readily accessible data.